Kevin Smith's Biography

Kevin Smith, Assistant Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Kevin Smith is an assistant professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and faculty member at the Science for Life Laboratory. Kevin' performed his graduate studies in computer vision and machine learning at EPFL in Switzerland. In 2007, he began his postdoctoral work in bioimage informatics, where he developed methods for dendrite tracing, cell tracking, and 3D segmentation in electron microscopy. In 2011, Kevin joined the Scientific Center for Optical and Electron Microscopy (SCOPEM) at ETH Zurich, where he worked on high throughput screening and phenotypic analysis. In 2015, Kevin became a senior researcher at the University of Basel Biozentrum, where he was responsible for image analysis and data processing of high content screens.

Kevin's research focuses on bioimage informatics, an interdisciplinary field that seeks to transform raw pixel data from microscopic images into representations that scientists can quantify, manipulate, analyze, and share with colleagues. In the past, such analyses were largely performed by hand. The goal of his research is to develop computational methods drawing from computer vision, machine learning, and bioinformatics to automatically analyze and understand images of biological processes and use this information to answer concrete biological questions.